A rights activist in Bahrain says authorities have arrested a prominent blogger just days after warning of harsher measures against anti-government protesters in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Assailants attacked the home of a Bahraini member of parliament with petrol bombs on Sunday for the second time in a week, the state news agency BNA said, the latest in a series of assaults on public officials and security personnel in the kingdom.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque as worshippers attended late-night prayers in a district where members of Bahrain's royal family live, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain is to study whether to restrict Internet-based telecom services, the communications minister of the restive Arab state told Reuters, although no final decision was imminent.
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A protester wearing a gas mask sits on a chair while holding a molotov cocktail during clashes with authorities in the village of Bilad al-Qadeem, south of Manama, July 19, 2013. Bahrain Ministry of Interior rejected the permission for weekly anti-government rally which is organized by Bahrain's mai

A protester wearing a gas mask displays an empty cartridge fired by riot police during clashes in the village of Bilad al-Qadeem, south of Manama, July 19, 2013. Bahrain Ministry of Interior rejected the permission for weekly anti-government rally which is organized by Bahrain's main opposition part